St. Louis Art Museum

“Narrative Wisdom and African Arts,” the largest show of African art that St. Louis Art Museum has ever organized, shows how African artists working in many mediums have preserved cultural memory by passing along inherited wisdom.

“The Work of Art” at St. Louis Art Museum displays art made by people working for the Federal Art Project, a New Deal program better known for its grand, public murals. It includes the first works by African American artists to enter the museum’s collection. Many have never before been on view.

Counterpublic, a St. Louis nonprofit organization that produces public art projects, is placing “erased history markers” at city intersections where streets named for Native American peoples meet streets named for the places from which white settlers removed them.

Curators are discovering new layers to German Expressionist art in St. Louis.

“The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st century” at St. Louis Art Museum maps the broad influence of hip-hop culture in a wide-ranging exhibition.

The sculpture “Live Culture Force 1’s” makes a large impression and is currently on display at the St. Louis Art Museum.

“The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century” opens with a block party and free museum admission on Saturday at the St. Louis Art Museum. The wide-ranging exhibition will run for four months.

A component of the upcoming St. Louis Art Museum exhibition that’s on display through Jan. 1 showcases hip-hop’s lasting influence on fashion.

“Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s” is St. Louis Art Museum’s first exhibition of modern and contemporary Native American art.

A new exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Catching the Moment,” is curated from the personal collection of Ted and Maryanne Ellison Simmons.